Contents
1. The New Jesus … 9
2. The Challenge to Christianity … 12
3. Who and What Were the Essenes? … 20
4. Contemporary Views of the Desert Sect … 33
5. Light on the Education of Jesus … 38
6. Sacred Books Omitted from the Bible … 49
7. How Scholars “Protect” Our Faith … 58
8. Bedouins and Harried Savants … 63
9. Why Was America Kept in the Dark So Long? … 71
10. Importance of Enoch and Other Pseudepigraphs … 85
11. The Story of the Ethiopian Eunuch … 102
12. Squabble Over the Scrolls … 112
13. Origin of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit … 119
14. Prophecies of “The Last Days” … 127
15. The Kingdom of Heaven and the Empty Tomb … 131
16. The Question of the Ages … 136
17. Essenism and Christian Gnosticism … 148

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